Tushar Sharma

Paper May 2026

"Watts This Smell: A Comprehensive Taxonomy of Software Energy Smells" accepted in ICSME 2026. Preprint

Award Apr 2026

Received the MSR Ric Holt Early Career Award for pioneering research in code quality and Green AI, plus development of widely-adopted software engineering tools. LinkedIn

Award Apr 2026

Distinguished Reviewer Award for exemplary peer review service at TechDebt 2026. LinkedIn

Paper Mar 2026

"BRACE: Unified Benchmarking of Accuracy and Energy for Code Language Models" accepted in JAWs 2026. Preprint

Talk Mar 2026

"The Hidden Cost of AI: Challenges and Opportunities" at University of PEI, Canada.

Paper Mar 2026

"Energy Flow Graph: Modeling Software Energy Consumption" accepted in FSE 2026 (Ideas, Visions, and Reflections track). Preprint

Paper Mar 2026

"CodeGreen: Towards Improving Precision and Portability in Software Energy Measurement" accepted in FSE 2026 (Tool Demo track). Preprint

Service Feb 2026

Appointed Associate Editor for Journal of Systems and Software (JSS).

Talk Feb 2026

"The Hidden Cost of Intelligence: The Energy Footprint of AI from Code to GPU Kernels" at FOSDEM 2026, Brussels, Belgium. Event

Media Nov 2025

CTV News coverage: "Power Problem." Video

Grant Sep 2025

Lab2Market grant for LeanPrompt: Accelerating Generative AI with Smarter Resource Utilization.

Award Sep 2025

Distinguished Service Award for organization as Program Co-chair, Source Code Analysis and Manipulation 2025, New Zealand.

Award Jun 2025

Dean's Research Excellence Award for contributions to Software Engineering and Green AI research.

Media May 2025

Atlantic Business Magazine: "Adopting AI: Handle With Care." Article

Media Feb 2025

The Globe and Mail coverage on AI's environmental impact. Article

Service Nov 2024

Participated in Dagstuhl perspective workshop on "Reframing technical debt." Post

Media Oct 2024

Financial Post: "The hidden cost of the AI revolution: carbon emissions." Article

Media Sep 2024

Dalhousie University news feature on Green AI research. Article

Grant Aug 2024

Mitacs Accelerate grant for "Fine-tuning an LLM for patent drafting" ($30K), industry partner: XLSCOUT.

Media Jun 2024

New Books Network coverage of "Code Smell Detection by Deep Direct-Learning and Transfer Learning." Coverage

Grant Mar 2024

Digital Research Alliance of Canada computing resources ($51K+) via Resource Allocation Competition, Co-PI with Dr. Masud Rahman.

Grant Mar 2024

Mitacs Accelerate grant ($225K) for "Exploring connection between internal and external software quality attributes," industry partner: Spokesfan.

Grant Mar 2024

Mitacs Accelerate grant ($15K) for "Subsystem Optimization of Intelligent Automated Distribution Kiosk."

Award Sep 2023

Best Artifact Award for "Calibrating Deep Learning-based Code Smell Detection using Human Feedback" at SCAM 2023.

Grant Sep 2023

Lab2Market grant for CoderGate.

Grant May 2023

Canada First Research Excellence Fund (CFREF) accepted for "Transforming Climate Action: Addressing the Missing Ocean" ($154 million over 7 years), team of 170 researchers.

Grant Apr 2023

NSERC Discovery grant approved for "DevQOps: A Continuous Software Quality Assurance Framework" (5-year funding).

Grant Jan 2023

Lab2Market grant for QConnect.

Service Sep 2021

Joined the Faculty of Computer Science at Dalhousie University as Assistant Professor.

Service Mar 2021

Served as PI of DARPA AMP MINDSIGHT team (Siemens, JHU/APL, BAE, UC Irvine).

Service Oct 2019

Joined Siemens Research, Charlotte, USA.

Paper May 2019

Defended PhD thesis: "Extending Maintainability Analysis Beyond Code Smells." Thesis